Gay Cuban Nation

by Emilio Bejel

Book Overview

With Gay Cuban Nation, Emilio Bejel looks at Cuba's markedly homoerotic culture through writings about homosexuality, placing them in the social and political contexts that led up to the Cuban Revolution. By reading against the grain of a wide variety of novels, short stories, autobiographies, newspaper articles, and films, Bejel maps out a fascinating argument about the way in which different attitudes toward power and nationalism struggle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226041743
• ISBN13: 9780226041742
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.3"